Curriculum Vitae

DEGREES:

Ph.D., University of Maine, 1975
M.A., Emory University, 1968
B.A., Emory University, 1967 (High Honors in History)

EMPLOYMENT:

Professor of History, Bryant University, 1987--
Associate Professor of History, Bryant University, 1981-1987
Assistant Professor of History, Bryant University, 1975-1981

HONORS AND AWARDS:

• 2007 Honorary Chairs' Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. Awarded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
• 2006 Best in French Culture Award. Awarded by Cultural Services Office of Embassy of  France to An American Heroine in The French Resistance. 
• James Madison Prize, 1994. Awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government for article, "`To The Rescue of the Crops':  The Women's Land Army during World War II," Prologue, 25(Winter 1993):  346-361 (co-authored with David C. Smith).
• National Historical Publications and Records Commission endorsement of project to edit and publish The World War II Letters of American Women, February 1991.
• Bryant University Research and Publication Award, 1997, 2005.
• Bryant University Herstory Award, 1996.
• Bryant University Summer Research Stipend, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
• Bryant University Alumni Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1989.
• Bryant University Faculty Federation Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1988.
• Bryant University Professional Development Leave, 1982-1983; 1986-1987;1990-91; Spring Semester 1996; Spring Semester 2004; Spring 2012.
• Bryant University Merit Award, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010.
• Sinology Fellow, Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International, Beijing, China), Summer 2011.
• Bryant University Summer Research Stipend for CIEE Faculty Development Seminar in Southwest China, June 14-25, 2008.
• Project Director, Higher Education Support Program Grant, Open Society Institute, Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the Social Sciences Summer School, Minsk, Belarus, July 1999.
• Project Development and Administrative Team, Bryant University Community Connections Program with Belarus,  U.S. Department of State Grant, 1999-2008.
• Project Director, U.S. Department of  State  Grant to promote Curriculum/Faculty Development between European Humanities University(Minsk, Belarus), Bryant University, and Suffolk University, 1997-2000.
• Assistant Project Director, United States Industry Coalition Grant to develop Cost Accounting and Financial Record Keeping System for New Independent States-Initiatives in Proliferation Prevention Project, U.S. Department of Energy, 1997-1998.
• Eurasia Foundation Travel/Research Grant to Republic of Georgia, June 9-June 17, 1997.
• Bryant University Summer Research/Travel Stipend to Ukraine, May 19-June 9, 1997.
• Center for International Business and Economic Development and Department of Defense Travel/Research Grant to Estonia, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, March 22-April 22, 1996; June 14-July 6, 1996; October 17-27, 1996; November 12-16, 1996.
• U.S. Department of Education Title VI and Bryant University Travel/Research Grant to England and France, summer 1995.
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Pi Sigma Alpha
• Ford Career Scholar

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